| A | B |
|---|
| Torah | religious (sacred) writings of Hebrews |
| New Testament | Christian holy book |
| Vedas & Upanishads | sacred writings of Hinduism |
| The Praise of Folly | satire of human behavior written by Erasmus |
| The Prince | first book about how to be a successful ruler/written by Machiavelli |
| Utopia | book about a perfect society/written by Sir Thomas More |
| Italian Sonnets in the vernacular | written by Petrarch "Father of Humanism" |
| Divine Comedy | imaginary trip into Hell/written in vernacular by Dante |
| Magna Carta | signed by King John of England/limited power of the king! |
| Qu'ran (Koran) | the holy book of Islam/dictated by Allah to Muhammed |
| Domesday Book | a counting of all things valuable in England/ordered done by William the Conqueror |
| the Gospels | first 4 books of Christian New Testament |
| Cyrillic alphabet | adoption of Greek alphabet for use with Slavic languages |
| Twelve Tables | Roman concept of "innocent until proven guilty" |
| Book of the Dead | hieroglyphic explanation of the afterlife & mummies |
| Four Noble Truths & Eight Fold Path | major beliefs of Buddhism |
| Treaty of Verdun | divided Charlemagne's Empire/3 grandsons |
| myths | stories of gods & goddesses |
| Iliad | story of the Trojan War/written by blind poet Homer |
| Odyssey | epic story of journey home after Trojan War/written by Homer |
